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@guising did a fantastic job finishing off the site redesign with a new site-wide navigation menu, available at the bottom of every page. The menu accomplishes two important tasks by giving site visitors: a better sense of the overall structure of the website, and more importantly access to all main areas of the website from…

We now have groups for OFS Users Federation Members up and running. Each group serves as hub for communications, collaboration and support, consisting of: A facebook-like social network An associated online forum A collaborative document system and A wiki space All community features can be accessed from the top of any page, under the “Community”…

In the wake of releasing Open Food Source version 1.0, we invite all supporters of local and open food systems to join us in mid-June as we create an Open Food Federation (Federation), an open technology solutions network for local food hubs everywhere, to better support food hubs who depend upon the OFS software for…

Appreciation Thank you to Christine Linder and her students at the Chemeketa Community College Visual Communications Program for their amazing work and help in creating the new Open Food logo! The students helped create a new logo and brand identity for the burgeoning Open Food Federation and its Open Food Source farmer’s market software that…

Based on demand, we have partnered with Canvas Host, a sustainable Portland-based web host to provide hosted and managed OFS installs. This solution should help fledgling food hubs who do not yet have the technical capacity to manage their own web server space. Contact us to learn more!

What is the Open Food Federation? What are food hubs? Why are local food networks important? How does Open Food Source support food hubs and local food networks? Find the answers to these questions and more in our Open Food_whitepaper. In this paper we provide an overview of the Federation, and supporting diagrams and definitions…

BREAKING NEWS: We have been working with the Chemeketa Community College Design Studio, which has offered its graphic design services in developing a logo for the Open Food Source software and Open Food Federation. They have provided 28 fantastic first-round options for review and we would love to have your input on the results. Please…

With the release of version 1.0 of Open Food Source (OFS) software earlier this year, several food hubs have expressed interest in exploring a grassroots collaboration for food hub resources. We are calling this concept the Open Food Federation and have drafted a purpose statement to begin the discussion: “To provide transparent technologies to local…

A new site using Open Food Source has recently begun to accept orders in Colorado State. Originally taking orders with a Square marketplace, Farm2TableTradingPost.com converted over to OFS and had their first order cycle on January 24. Focusing primarily on meat sales, the Trading Post finds Open Food Source software well-suited to their unique business…

The following article was contributed to opensource.org by Roy Guisinger as part of their series for Open Food Week, published on November 19, 2014 at http://opensource.com/life/14/11/open-food-source-orphan-federation. In the local food movement, open source principles are very much like the open pollinated seeds that farmers keep to grow next year’s crops. When farmers use their own…